In the Japanese short story I'm currently translating, one of the sentences contained a word that I don't believe English contains, for all the words it does have—腐れ縁, pronounced kusare-en.
The first characters by themselves, 腐 れ / kusare, can be a derogatory term meaning rotting, spoiling, decaying, corroding and it can be a verb: to rot, to spoil, etc.
The second character, 縁 / en, can mean (as one of its six meanings} relationship between two people, bond, link connection.
Put them together as a single word and my dictionary says it means "an undesirable but inseparable relationship/" Who'd a guessed?
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